“If you thought the state of cyber defense had become substantially better in the last ten years, you’d be wrong,” he said. “We’ve been waling backward on cybersecurity for more than a decade and we’ll continue to walk backward unless and until we can address the core issues. The defensive stance needs to change from filter and guard to hunt and kill.”

Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.

Cloud

...Google and Microsoft lobbing price reductions at AWS. They haven't worked. Pulling up stakes on one platform to move to another is more than a matter of saving a few dollars. It's a hassle, one that can only be justified by making the alternative cloud more convenient.

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osquery is an operating system instrumentation framework and toolset for *nix based hosts. osquery makes low-level operating system analytics and monitoring both performant and intuitive.
osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data.

Easy to type server names.

OH “ssh into Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg, how did you not remember its the main database? Its a huge flying scorpion with an ant-like head”